Cleveland Museum of Art
Shepherds in a Round Dance
- Date
- around 1500
- Medium
- Wool and silk: tapestry weave
- Culture
- Netherlands, early 16th century
- Department
- Textiles
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Late medieval tapestries often use a limited yet contrasting color palette to portray stylized images. The expressions of these figures, for example, are conveyed more by their postures than by their faces. Four shepherds and shepherdesses join hands and dance to the music of a bagpiper at the far right, while a lord and two ladies on the left look on. A dog and sheep amid blossoming plants and trees contribute to the festive pastoral scene in front of a castle.
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